| Chinese Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| English Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| ·Non-governmental Senior High Schools | 第11页 |
| ·Necessity of Applying Communicative Approaches to Non-governmental Senior High Schools | 第11-12页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第12页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches | 第13-36页 |
| ·Communicative Approaches | 第13-20页 |
| ·The definition of Communicative Competence | 第13-14页 |
| ·Components of Communicative Competence | 第14-15页 |
| ·Characteristics of Communicative Approaches | 第15-16页 |
| ·Basic Principles for Communicative Approaches | 第16-19页 |
| ·Procedures of Communicative Approaches | 第19-20页 |
| ·Communicative Competence in Second Language Teaching | 第20-33页 |
| ·Use of Content in the Communicative System | 第21-23页 |
| ·Communicative Tasks and Roles in Communicative Teaching and Learning | 第23-25页 |
| ·Teacher’s and Learner’s Role in Communicative Activities | 第25-30页 |
| ·Student-student Interaction in the Communicative Classroom | 第30-31页 |
| ·Teacher-student Interaction in the Communicative Classroom | 第31-33页 |
| ·Cultural Difficulties in Applying Communicative Approaches to Chinese Schools | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第36-44页 |
| ·Aims of Experimen | 第36页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第36页 |
| ·Research Design and methodology | 第36-44页 |
| ·Subjects | 第37-38页 |
| ·Procedures of the Experiment | 第38-44页 |
| Chapter 4 Data Analysis | 第44-49页 |
| ·Experiment Results | 第44-47页 |
| ·Analysis of the Experiment | 第47页 |
| ·Discussion | 第47页 |
| ·Suggestions from the Experiment | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| ·Findings | 第49页 |
| ·Limitations of the Research | 第49-50页 |
| ·Implications for Future Research | 第50-51页 |
| References | 第51-54页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第54-55页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第55页 |
